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New threat facing homeowners whose properties are featured online. Christina Coulter. September 16, 2024 at 4:00 AM. Burglars once lurked around neighborhoods and scanned obituaries to determine ...
Art theft, sometimes called artnapping, is the stealing of paintings, sculptures, or other forms of visual art from galleries, museums or other public and private locations. Stolen art is often resold or used by criminals as collateral to secure loans. [1] Only a small percentage of stolen art is recovered—an estimated 10%. [2]
Possession of stolen goods is a crime in which an individual has bought, been given, or acquired stolen goods.. In many jurisdictions, if an individual has accepted possession of goods (or property) and knew they were stolen, then the individual may be charged with a crime, depending on the value of the stolen goods, and the goods are returned to the original owner.
Law. v. t. e. In criminal and property law, theft by finding occurs when someone chances upon an object which seems abandoned and takes possession of the object, but fails to take steps to establish whether the object is genuinely abandoned and not merely lost or unattended before taking it for themselves. [1]
An electrical utility power box that has been forced open to allow electricity to be illegally accessed by directly hooking it from the line. What's known as "cable hooking" is the most used method. 80% of global power theft is by direct tapping from the line. The consumer taps into a power line from a point ahead of the energy meter.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft. In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, 13 works of art were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Guards admitted two men posing as police officers responding to a disturbance call, and the thieves bound the guards and looted the museum over the next hour.
Theft of government property. The theft of government property, also classified as stealing property from government officials, is the act of performing theft of property from federal, state or local governments; the crime is a felony in most areas. They include, though are not limited to: embezzlement, stealing any records, vouchers, money ...
Jodie Sweetin was busted on “Fuller House” set for trying to steal iconic prop. After two rounds as Stephanie Tanner, the actress really wanted the "Sea Pappy" head for herself. Making TV is a ...